July 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Changing width of division lines in tables?
by Alasdair McAndrew 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

Hello there, In the table environment, \HL and \VL have an optional parameter by which you can change their width: \HL[3], \VL[4] for example. However, for a division line \DL, the optional parameter gives the number of columns it spans. How can I change the width of a given division line? Thanks, Alasdair -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew

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Problem with \automigrateinserts
by Andreas Harder 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hi, if one uses \automigrateinsers footnotes in captions will be eaten. \automigrateinserts % kill footnotes in captions! \starttext \in{Footnote}[foot:a] \par \in{Footnote}[foot:b] \par \in{Footnote}[foot:c] \placefigure[here] [pic:ref:h]{test\footnote[foot:a]{a footnote}}{} \placefigure[top] [pic:ref:t]{test\footnote[foot:b]{a footnote}}{} \placefigure[bottom][pic:ref:b]{test\footnote[foot:c]{a footnote}}{} \in{Footnote}[foot:a] \par \in{Footnote}[foot:b] \par \in{Footnote}[foot:c] \stoptext Greeting Andreas

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Use of \hairline in the header
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

I have the following document: \setupheader[ after={\startalignment[center]\hairline\stopalignment}, style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, ] \setuplayout[ footer=0mm, header=10mm, ] \setupheadertexts[] \setupheadertexts[Documentation for product XYZ –concept–] [version: 2001-07-19] \starttext Just some text to fill the document. \stoptext I would expect the hairline to be at the same place as the text of the document, but instead it is completely left aligned. What am I doing wrong? -- Cecil Westerhof

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\start/stopTEXpage resets page layout?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hello, let's have the following code: ---- \setuplayout[page] \starttext AAA \page \copypages[cow.pdf] BBB \startTEXpage \externalfigure[cow] \stopTEXpage \page CCC \stoptext ---- Texts "AAA" and "BBB" are written from the strict left top corner of the page - page has no header nor backspace. So does the "cow" - it fills one page perfectly. That's OK. But when the text "CCC" is typeset, it seems a "default" layout is restored - see the space up and left, also the header appears; that's unwanted. What is the "trick" to prevent page layout from being modified by \start/stopTEXpage? TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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\copypages[file#.pdf]
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hello, this kind of question was discussed once - how to include '#' character to the file name so that \copypages take it? Something like: \copypages[TZ#001.pdf] e.g. by \copypages[\MAKETEXT{TZ#001.pdf}] There was discussion about other "not-so-frequent" chars as well - ! # $ % @ ^ & _ - any evolution? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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ConTeXt -> LaTeXt -> ODT?
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

I another thread I talked about my problems with converting my ConTeXt file to an editable format. In principal going the xhtml way seemed best. But yesterday I got talking with someone in the train. He told me that it was possible to convert ConTeXt to LaTeXt and LaTeXt to an ODT file. This could solve my problem. Was this person correct? If yes, how would I do this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Two days ago I already posted about this. But because of a glitch at my side, it became a conversation between me and Hans Hagen. I have almost finished writing documentation with ConTeXt. Now the client also needs to have the possibility to change the document. We are so far that the client will work with Adobe Acrobat. Now I have to prove that they can edit it. My boss has a 'recent' version 8 (latest is X). It does not look very promising to edit a document, but that is at this moment not the biggest problem. When I try to change text, I get: All or part of the selection has no available system font. You cannot add or delete text using the currently selected font. I have added a screenshot of the font properties. Is this a problem because of the old Adobe version, or the used fonts? If the latter, which fonts should I use to circumvent this problem? At the moment I am using: \usetypescript[helvetica] \setupbodyfont[helvetica] because they did not like the default font. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Characters instead numbers in headings
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hello, I'm trying to get numbering style like this: A. Chapter A.1 Section I compiled a couple-of-months-old file and I got another result than before (?!). So I created a minimal example - hope this is a valid code for numbering (or rather "charactering") chapters as described before: ---- \definestructureconversionset[Num2Char][numbers,Characters][numbers] \setuphead[chapter][sectionconversionset=Num2Char] \starttext \chapter{Cha} \section{Sec} \stoptext ---- But numbers appear - so what has changed or what am I doing wrong? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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General suggestion: Unit tests for ConText
by Peter Schorsch 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hi, during my work with context I wrote a bunch of fewliners mainly to test how to do things. When there change from mkii to mkiv occured many of my mini-tests failed and later with the growing of mkiv restartet to work - some just without adaption.. some with some adjustment to a new syntax. I realize that they have the same functionality like unit-tests - just instead of comparing classes and variables - a pdf-output is visually compared. So I like to suggest to introduce unit tests for context. It would a) increase the quality of context as it makes the testing easier for the developer b) it also would be a great source of minihowtos for learning context. Before I write my technical ideas about this I would like to know what are you thinking about this idea?

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resolvers.findctxfile broken
by Andreas Schneider 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hi, since one of the latest beta, resolvers.findctxfiles is broken. The attached example used to work (see test3.working.log) while the new beta fails (see test3.failed.log). -- Best Regards, Andreas

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